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The Office of Academic Affairs and the Board of Trustees have approved the promotion of Namiko Kunimoto from Associate Professor to Professor in the History of Art Department. Professor Kunimoto's…
Professor Karl Whittington has been named a Camargo Foundation Fellow for Fall 2026. The Camargo Fellowship is a 10-week residency for artists and writers in Cassis, France. Prof. Whittington will…
Namiko Kunimoto presented her new book, Imperial Animations in Transpacific Contemporary Art, at the University of Chicago on May 13th, 2026. It was held at the Seminary Co-op Book Store…
On March 5, 2026, Prof. Kris Paulsen and Prof. Jennifer Rhee (VCU) led a seminar for Dartmouth College’s Leslie Center for the Humanities on "AI and Refusal.”
This Leslie Center Seminar on…
Prof. Karl Whittington spoke last week in the Department of Art at Oklahoma State University. He presented research from his recent book, Queer Making, as the keynote for the department’s…
Our own Professor Namiko Kunimoto was recently featured on the UC Press Blog as part of a wider discussion on "How Transpacific Contemporary Art Reveals Imperialism's Role in the Global Rise of…
The Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and The Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee partnered to host History of Art’s Kris…
Five History of Art Faculty members presented their research at the College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago on February 18-21, 2026. More information can be found on CAA's website. …
Namiko Kunimoto had the pleasure of mentoring scholars from Mongolia, Malaysia, and Singapore while visiting Chicago as part of the College Art Association Conference. The mentorship program is…
Four History of Art faculty members presented on their research in “Current Threads in and against Art History: Power, Colonialism, Genocide,” a department-sponsored event. Aaron Katzeman, Benjamin…
Professor Sam Aranke participated in Getty Research Institute and Royal Academy of Arts two-day public forum Kerry James Marshall: Conversations examining the many influences behind…
Namiko Kunimoto has published her second bok, Imperial Animations in Transpacific Contemporary Art. It was published by the University of California Press and received the FirstGen Scholar Award.…
Namiko Kunimoto will travel to Portland to give a talk on gender and postwar Japanese art at the Portland Art Museum. Her talk is part of a symposium on the artist Yoshida Chizuko.
Assistant Professor Aaron Katzeman recently gave the 24th Janet E. Hutchison Lecture at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto in coordination with the exhibition Earthwork, curated by…
The Wexner Center for the Arts will celebrate the opening of its fall programming with an opening reception on Friday, August 22. The event will open three new exhibitions including …
Associate Professor Jody Patterson was recently awarded a 2025 Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award. The Ratner Awards are presented annually for outstanding teaching by tenure…
Prof. Karl Whittington and PhD student Tony del Aversano presented research at a symposium at the Clark Art Institute on Friday April 11, 2025. The symposium, “Queer Palimpsests: Rewriting…
On March 29, Professor Namiko Kunimoto presented a talk titled Tanaami Keiichi: Commerical War (and Chickens) at the The Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami. Below is a summary of the talk,…
Associate Professor Sam Aranke has won a major award from the MLA (Modern Language Association) for her book, Death’s Futurity: The Visual Life of Black Power, published last year. The…
On November 27, Distinguished University Professor Emerita Julia Andrews delivered a lecture at the Foundation Giacometti in Paris. Her talk, titled: “The Lure of the West: Chinese Modernists and…
Professor Namiko Kunimoto received a FirstGen Scholar Grant for her book, Imperial Animations in Transpacific Art, forthcoming from the University of California Press.
Professors Aranke and Jones, co-conveners of the Samella Lewis Initiative, are featured contributors to the exhibition “Dewey Crumpler: Life Studies” now on view at the David C. Driskell Center…
Professor Namiko Kunimoto was featured on the news in Japan for giving a virtual talk on Shiraga Kazuo on the 100th memorial of his birth at the Amagasaki Cultural Center.
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Professor Kris Paulsen contributed an essay, “Simulating Citizenship,” to a new book on Debi Cornwall, Model Citizens. Cornwall’s new body of work takes “the United States as a…
Professor Kris Paulsen was invited to speak at the Nam June Paik Art Center as part of the Trans-Spatial Symposium celebrating Nam June Paik’s birthday and the 40-year anniversary of his satellite…
Namiko Kunimoto will speak (online) at a symposium in Ashiya, Japan, celebrating 100 years since Shiraga Kazuo was born.
Professor and Department Chair Karl Whittington conducted research for two weeks in France, as part of his book in progress, Queer Making: Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe. He…
Distinguished University Professor Emerita Julia Andrews recently published a co-edited volume of essays (with Shuyu Kong and Shengtian Zheng) for Routledge. Entitled "Art and Modernism in Socialist…
Namiko Kunimoto gave the keynote address at the UCLA Action and Perception conference on May 13, 2024. She spoke on work related to her current book project Imperial Animations in Transpacific…
The Office of Academic Affairs and the Board of Trustees have approved the promotion of History of Art Department Chair Karl Whittington from Associate Professor to Professor. Professor…
Associate Professor Namiko Kunimoto has been selected as a member of the Global Arts + Humanities Society of Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. Her project situates Japanese Empire as a…
Associate Professor Jody Patterson has been awarded the 2024 Graduate Faculty Mentorship Award. This is an award that is given annually by the Graduate School at OhioState to three faculty members…
Prof. Kris Paulsen has been named a 2024-2025 Faculty Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Culture and Technology. The Center, founded in 1963 to support the work of media scholar…
Namiko Kunimoto traveled in August 2023 to Ghent, Belgium to present her recent work on Militarism and Contemporary Art in Japan at the European Association of Japanese Studies. While there, she…
The History of Art department would like to congratulate Associate Professor Namiko Kunimoto being awarded three grants to aid in her upcoming book project. She is the recipient of the Office of…
A recent article highlights an ongoing collaboration between professors in the History of Art Department and the Fine Arts Library. In the essay, Professor Judy Andrews and Associate Professor…
The History of Art Department – current and emeritus faculty and graduate students - gathered at the home of Department Chair Karl Whittington to celebrate our colleague Julia Andrews on the…
Professor Namiko Kunimoto will be giving a keynote talk for the ASIANetwork conference in Columbus on April 14th.
Information about her Keynote Presentation:
Namiko…
This fall, an exhibition featuring the work of artist Sarah Rosalena is opening at the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA). Kris Paulsen, associate professor and chair of…
Professor Kris Paulsen received a Craft Research Fund Exhibition Grant from the Center for Craft to support the exhibition she is organizing at the Columbus Museum of Art, Sarah Rosalena: In…
Associate Professor and Roy Lichtenstein Chair of American Art Jody Patterson has been awarded a Visiting Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the…
In December 2022, Associate Professor Namiko Kunimoto will examine works by Shimada Yoshiko, the Tomorrow Girls Troop, Kim Seo-kyung, and Kim Eun-sung in her talk at Sophia University. Her talk…
The History of Art Department congratulates Professor Lisa Florman, who has been appointed Ohio State’s Vice Provost for the Arts, effective September 15, 2022. As vice provost for the arts, Lisa…
Myroslava M. Mudrak, professor emeritus in the Department of History of Art, was inducted into the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine as a Foreign Member specializing in the history and theory of…
Dr. Jody Patterson, Professor and Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Chair of Art History, will present her research at the Slate Valley Museum in Granville, New York, as part of a series connected to…
Dr. Erica Levin has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Professor Levin's area of focus includes avant-garde cinema, post-war art, documentary, performance, and visual culture. Her…
Dr. Jody Patterson, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Chair of Art History, will virtually present a paper entitle "WPA: A USA Work Program and its Antecedents" for the Gibbes Museum of Art on Wednesday…
The Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme has awarded Prof. Kris Paulsen and her collaborators, Prof. Amy Youngs and Wexner Senior Curator Kelly Kivland, a $48,000 seed grant to support The…
Distinguished University Professor Julia Andrews will virtually present a paper entitled "Landscape and Artistic Revolution: André Claudot (1892-1982) and the Modern Art Movement in China" at the…
Jody Patterson, Associate Professor, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Chair of Art History at OSU and Elizabeth Finch, Chief Curator of the Colby College Museum of Art and co-curator of the exhibition,…
Professor Kris Paulsen has received the Virginia Hull Award for Research in the Humanities to support work on her new book manuscript, provisionally titled “Future Artifact,” on art, AI and…
Associate Professor Namiko Kunimoto was recently awarded a New Project Research Grant from the Division of Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences. The grant will support research…
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will host the second annual BAMPFA Lijin Collection Lecture with Professor Judy Andrews on "Women Artists in…
Professor Namiko Kunimoto was awarded an Ishibashi Japan Foundation Fellowship. This program aims to support the development of professionals specializing in the study of Japanese visual arts by…
Associate Professor Kris Paulsen has been selected as a member of the Global Arts + Humanities Society of Fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year. She will work on her project “Flesh and the…
The exhibition catalogue Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural, co-authored by Professor Jody Patterson, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Professor of American Art, was…
History of Art faculty members Lisa Florman, Daniel Marcus, and Kris Paulsen have received a $40,000 Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Community Engagement Grant to begin a multi-year,…
Professor Erica Levin will co-chair the panel "Experiments in an Open Terrain: Exhibiting Film and Video After Expanded Cinema" at the upcoming Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual…
Professor Namiko Kunimoto will speak at the panel "After the Pandemic: The Future of University-Community Engagement." This panel will examine how universities and post-secondary institutions will…
Namiko Kunimoto will be a speaker for Museum Brandhorst's panel "Transformations in Post War Sculptures." This panel will focus on the artists David Smith from the US, Eduardo Paolozzi from the UK…
This colloquium by Byron Hamann, William C. Seitz Senior Fellow, will examine the changes of a historical narrative throughout time, in conjunction with the images that portray this narrative…
Congratulations to History of Art Professor Erica Levin, one of the contributors to the catalogue for Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975, which recently won an…
Congratulations to Professor Namiko Kunimoto on receiving the 2019 Ratner Award for Distinguished Teaching!
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for developing new courses, original…
Associate Professor Karl Whittington has been named a Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow for 2020 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). He will be in residence at the…
Professor Karl Whittington received an ICMA-Kress Research and Publication Grant from the International Center of Medieval Art to fund research for his book, Trecento Pictoriality: Form,…
Associate Professor Kris Paulsen will be in conversation with artist Joan Jonas at Metrograph, 7 Ludlow Street, in New York City, on Saturday, October 5. The program is part of Flaherty NYC's …
"Following an international search and formal approval from Ohio State’s Board of Trustees, Jody Patterson, PhD, has been named the first Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Chair of Art…
The Humanities Institute has named Namiko Kunimoto the new director of the Center for Ethnic Studies (CES), which came into being last fall as part of the newly reconfigured Institute and includes…
When Namiko Kunimoto joined Ohio State’s faculty in 2013, there were no Japanese art courses, and History of Photography had not been offered for many years. To remedy this…
Congratulations to Kris Paulsen on being one of several OSU recipients of the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Excellence Awards for 2018. In Kris's case the award is for art…
We are pleased to announce that Professor Namiko Kunimoto is a recent recipient of the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, which annually recognizes a maximum of ten faculty…
We are pleased to announce that Professor Christian Kleinbub is the most recent recipient of the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring,…
Congratulations to Professor Kris Paulsen, whose book, Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface (MIT, 2017), has been awarded the 2017/18 Anne Friedberg…
Congratulations to Professor Kris Paulsen on receiving the Ratner Award for Distinguished Teaching!
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for developing new courses,…
Announcing the opening ceremony of Painting Her Way: The Ink Art of Fang Zhaoling on September 26, 2017 (Tuesday) at Asia Society Hong Kong Center. Presented at the Chantal Miller Gallery…
Assistant Professor Namiko Kunimoto was recently elected vice president of the Japan Art History Forum, which is the primary English-language organization for historians of…
In addition to her Guggenheim Fellowship, Distinguished University Professor Julia Andrews has been awarded a Fulbright grant for the 2016/17 academic year. Professor Andrews will…
Assistant Professor Namiko Kunimoto was recently awarded a Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Grant, with the support of the Japan-U.S…
Congratulations to Professor Karl Whittington on receiving the Ratner Award for Distinguished Teaching.
The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for developing new courses,…
Professor Namiko Kunimoto was recently awarded a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant for her book, Thresholds of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced that Distinguished University Professor Julia F. Andrews has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the 2016/17 academic…
Myroslava Mudrak, Professor Emeritus, along with Tentiana Rudenko, was awarded the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Prize for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions for her…
Kris Paulsen, this year's recipient of the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring in the Humanities. The award recognizes "outstanding…
At their June meeting, the OSU Board of Trustees conferred on Judy Andrews the title of Distinguished University Professor, the highest honor the university bestows on a faculty…
Assistant Professor Namiko Kunimoto has been awarded a Japan Foundation Fellowship for the 2016/17 academic year. She intends to use the money to spend the spring semester in…
Associate Professor Christian Kleinbub has won a prestigious year-long fellowship at Villa I Tatti, Harvard's center for the study of the Italian Renaissance in Florence, Italy…
Assistant Professor Karl Whittington has received the prestigious and well-deserved 2015 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. The Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching…
Assistant Professor Kris Paulsen has received a major grant from the Mellon-funded Global Midwest Initiative, funded through the Humanities Without Walls Consortium. The money…
Assistant Professor Karl Whittington's book, Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Cartographic Imagination was recently named as one of four finalists for the…
Associate Professor Barbara Haeger was initiated as an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society on April 23, 2014. According to Mary Ellen Jenkins, Assistant Executive Dean…
Professor emeritus James Morganstern has been named an associate member of the Centre Michel de Boüard, Centre de recherches archéologiques et historiques anciennes et médiévales (CRAHAM),…
Assistant Professor Byron Hamann has been named an editor of Grey Room, one of the nation's premier academic journals that is devoted to scholarly and theoretical…
The Art of Modern China by Professor Julia F. Andrews and OSU alumnus Kuiyi Shen was selected for Choice's "Outstanding Academic Titles: Top 25 Books for 2013."
Christian Kleinbub, associate professor, history of art, has been awarded the 2013 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools…
Leonardo Electronic Almanac – in conjunction with Operational and Curatorial Research – and Boston Cyberarts are pleased to present Mathematical Rhymes – an exploration of art-making practices…
The Art of Modern China by OSU Distinguished Scholar Julia F. Andrews and OSU History of Art alumnus Dr. Kuiyi Shen has received the 2013 International…
Assistant Professor Karl Whittington has been awarded the Meiss/Mellon Author's Book Award from the College Art Association to help defray the cost of illustrations in his book …
Assistant Professor Karl Whittington has been awarded a Millard Meiss Publication grant from the College Art Association to subsidize the publication of his book,…
The Art of Modern China by Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen has been named to the long list of titles for the 2013 book award in the Humanities from the International…
The Christine Verzar Image Database, featuring research and travel photographs of Christine Verzar, Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Department of History of Art, has been made available…
The first comprehensive exhibition of avant-garde artist Borys Kosarev will be presented in New York City at The Ukrainian Museum opening December 4, 2011 through May 2, 2012. Borys Kosarev:…
Distinguished University Professor Emerita Susan Huntington has been named a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for the 2011-12 academic…
The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Preservation and Access Division) for $175,000 to complete digitizing…